Terrorist attacks are always treated as one off events without really looking at the malignant roots which make such horrors inevitable, it always comes down to fear based delusion.

We are not really this unconscious. We know deep down, we know, but we don’t change as there is so much profit to be made from madness and perpetuating fear. Only real awareness and the willingness and conviction to heal and be vulnerable enough to face what has been hidden will lead into real change and return us to love.

Passing laws and bills only act as topical treatments for deep systemic malignancy. We each have the ultimate personal responsibility to bring what is unconsciously biasing us and causing false projections into the light to heal them. This takes the greatest courage. Nothing else will help. Nothing.

Bless you for holding presence. Bless those taken and their families and communities, and those without sight - lost in the desert of fear and illusion that they and we may become aware of our own fear and so begin to have the courage to know the truth of the nature of life within all things.

Whether we are an adult or a child being read to makes you feel comforted and cared for. It’s something we can do for each other that is so simple and kind that will deeply nourish our minds and souls.

Insight Timer have just launched a new Sleep section on their app which includies specially commissioned readings by some of their best loved teachers including yours truly.

Good morning all. Am late to sit this morning, but it’s the turning up that matters. Turning up in our meditation = turning up in our lives = turning up for each other & the world. Just reflecting how easy to hide in ‘spirituality’ wishing the world would change, where actually given that we’re blessed and have grace to have these tools to know the ground of being, to know the sacred within ourselves and therefore know the world. It’s time, planet and people wise, we started letting that make us the grown ups in the room. Meditation is not something on the side, our soul is not a hobby, it’s real power. Perhaps it’s time to meet that and live from there with authenticity & conviction.

Probably Marianne Williamson’s most powerful talk yet of her amazing phase of wanting to bring true consciousness to the political world and to democracy. It’s such an important message. I hope she is grounded in presence in herself... but we don’t need saints here, we need awareness and some backbone combined... great to hear this conversation evolving somewhere, and it’s not about party politics or ideology anymore.

I’ve spent a long hour this morning journaling how we might look at things here in UK... the situation is different, a much longer and more entrenched sense of aristocratic rule, and the people ‘knowing our place’ or thinking we’re surviving by creating bubbles, esp in spiritual life. That and we are still ‘subjects’ not a democracy. But the roots are the same. I’ve long reflected on this stuff but the inertia and unconscious fear is so great in our society, and we’ve come to believe in social media rather than community.

There are no magic bullets and instant fixes, but there is the now and awareness and strong love, and there is you and there is me. Is there?

A walk in the woods while we discuss upcoming possibilities of retreats abroad, creating an online community that truly serves people who want to focus on practice and self-realisation, and the creation of online content. We also look at how life is ever present, but that we are often blind to what is because of our conditioned minds.